I am a cell phone design engineer. i dont dissagree with your flight att, but this is VERy dependant on several factors.
most important is altitude.
as Kee's experiment says, they work up until 2-5,000ft
i have tried a dozen times (Shhh...)
it NEVER works over 5,000ft. it may connect for 1/2 second, then drops right away.
i just posted a comment here...
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/05/316975d.shtmlpasting below...
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the idea that Olson was even on this flight is a bit too coincidetal for me.
just like the idea that there were 4-5 war games going on that day.
I am a cell phone design engineer. The calls that were made could not have come from 35,000ft like shown in the flight maps for flight 93 and others.
Ted Olson first said that she used a cell phone, then when a few people were saying that cell phojnes wouldnt work,he changed his story to airphones.
the problem is he had aleardy said she was in back (bathroom i think) when she called.
Well, that cant be true either, airphone cords dont reach to the bathroom. i checked.
so he tried to cover his story, but made a faux pas and coulnt go back.
then he said, she might not have been in the bathroom, he thought she was becuase the background noise was quite.
trying to cover up again....
September 12, 2001
WASHINGTON -- "What should I tell the pilot to do? We've been hijacked," Barbara Olson, a former Southern California prosecutor, said matter-of-factly into her cell phone as she sat huddled with other passengers forced by knife-wielding assailants to the back of the jetliner.
Moments later, the solicitor general watched the screen and heard a newscaster speculate that a bomb had exploded at the Pentagon.
"He knew immediately that a bomb didn't go off," McConnell said. "He knew it was the plane."
WOW i guess he is psychic ? There were reports of other bombs...
more...
http://analysis.batcave.net/cell_phones.html http://www.911review.org/Wiki/CellPhoneCallsFlight77.shtml http://www.911review.org/Wiki/Sept11PhysicsCellPhones.shtml http://www.911review.org/Wiki/CellPhoneCalls.shtmlbrad
http://911review.orghttp://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/bradm/911index/index.html